PiperFlute21
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Dr. Doctor,
Please, forgive my ranting, Dr. Doctor. I'm sure you think you have better things to do. I'm sure the co-pay I pay you to see me for 10 minutes will sit nice and cozy in your pocket when you get your check. I'm sure you're also enjoying the fact that you can hear everything around you just fine.
But just because YOU don't think I'm "deaf enough for hearing aids" doesn't mean my life wouldn't be significantly improved by them. What you don't understand is that I wake up and I don't know whether I'm going to be able to hear people talking to me at all, whether I'm just going to hear a little bit of sound that I can't make sense out of, or if I'll be what you think is "fine." Meniere's Disease, as you so nicely put, isn't "fixable" and my hearing loss can't be "cured."
You reason for not prescribing me HA's is that they will be more annoying than they will be helpful. Well tell me why the amplifiers I use occasionally when nothing else helps provides me with enough sound to get through classes and church and whatever else on my "okay" days? But the amplifiers amplify everything else, too. The sound of the car running, the sound of wind rushing by me when I go outside to run, the sound of hundreds of other people talking around me in a crowded mall, but not the person standing right next to me.
What you don't understand, what ANYONE who has perfect hearing can't understand, is that there are days when that just isn't enough and when those don't help. There are days when the buzzing and the ringing and the roaring are all I can hear and I have a hope somewhere that this might be the thing to help me. What I can't understand is why you can't explain to me why this won't help me when what I have now helps a little bit. If something that is not even prescription grade can help me a little, then shouldn't something that's tailored to my hearing loss help more?
Who are you to decide what's best for me? I may not be a doctor, but I live every day with this condition. And it is not you that is suffering from the migraines and the constant noise in your head that no one else can here and the constant rounds of steroids to stop the dizziness, that nothing can touch.
So you say I'm fixed now? So you say that just because I haven't had a drop attack in two weeks that I'm "healed enough?" You say that the fact that I'm still CONSTANTLY dizzy doesn't matter? Well you try walking just one day in my shoes, Dr. Doctor. You try living with this condition. You try being one of the millions of my friends that live this life. You try not being able to hear the most important sounds around you and tell me how much you like it. And you thank God before you go to sleep every night for the gift that you have to hear. And then think twice before denying someone else that opportunity, Dr. Doctor.
With love,
Piper
Please, forgive my ranting, Dr. Doctor. I'm sure you think you have better things to do. I'm sure the co-pay I pay you to see me for 10 minutes will sit nice and cozy in your pocket when you get your check. I'm sure you're also enjoying the fact that you can hear everything around you just fine.
But just because YOU don't think I'm "deaf enough for hearing aids" doesn't mean my life wouldn't be significantly improved by them. What you don't understand is that I wake up and I don't know whether I'm going to be able to hear people talking to me at all, whether I'm just going to hear a little bit of sound that I can't make sense out of, or if I'll be what you think is "fine." Meniere's Disease, as you so nicely put, isn't "fixable" and my hearing loss can't be "cured."
You reason for not prescribing me HA's is that they will be more annoying than they will be helpful. Well tell me why the amplifiers I use occasionally when nothing else helps provides me with enough sound to get through classes and church and whatever else on my "okay" days? But the amplifiers amplify everything else, too. The sound of the car running, the sound of wind rushing by me when I go outside to run, the sound of hundreds of other people talking around me in a crowded mall, but not the person standing right next to me.
What you don't understand, what ANYONE who has perfect hearing can't understand, is that there are days when that just isn't enough and when those don't help. There are days when the buzzing and the ringing and the roaring are all I can hear and I have a hope somewhere that this might be the thing to help me. What I can't understand is why you can't explain to me why this won't help me when what I have now helps a little bit. If something that is not even prescription grade can help me a little, then shouldn't something that's tailored to my hearing loss help more?
Who are you to decide what's best for me? I may not be a doctor, but I live every day with this condition. And it is not you that is suffering from the migraines and the constant noise in your head that no one else can here and the constant rounds of steroids to stop the dizziness, that nothing can touch.
So you say I'm fixed now? So you say that just because I haven't had a drop attack in two weeks that I'm "healed enough?" You say that the fact that I'm still CONSTANTLY dizzy doesn't matter? Well you try walking just one day in my shoes, Dr. Doctor. You try living with this condition. You try being one of the millions of my friends that live this life. You try not being able to hear the most important sounds around you and tell me how much you like it. And you thank God before you go to sleep every night for the gift that you have to hear. And then think twice before denying someone else that opportunity, Dr. Doctor.
With love,
Piper
